The GRIB mission is to develop and apply computational methods and information technologies for a better understanding and prediction of biological phenomena, giving especial emphasis to those related to the human diseases, their prevention, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment.

GRIB has a long record of leadership and participation in EU-funded projects and collaboration with pharmaceutical industry in knowledge management, translational bioinformatics and predictive modelling. GRIB has a long tradition of collaboration with the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry in the framework of R&D projects and also providing services, especially in the development of computational methods for drug discovery. GRIB staff is involved in pre and postgraduate teaching at the UPF and we are coordinators of the Master in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences.

GRIB is the node for Biomedical Informatics of the Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics (INB) and jointly with Farmaindustria, GRIB coordinates the Plataforma Tecnológica Española de Medicamentos Innovadores (PTEMI). GRIB participates also in the Bioinformatics Barcelona Association (BIB), which aims to promote training, research, and technology transfer in bioinformatics. Ferran Sanz, GRIB’s director, is the co-president of PTEMI and vicepresident of BIB.